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We have a market-driven society so obsessed with buying and selling and obsessed with power and pleasure and property.

Cornel West

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth
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Speak Suffering Want
Rage is fine as long as it doesn’t deteriorate into bitterness.
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Bitterness Long Rage
I do believe that not just the churches but strong communities, strong trade unions, strong families can make a difference in terms of producing persons much more virtuous than what one usually finds in a gangster culture.
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Belief Difference Strong
confining life to an eternal present is an insidious form of soul murder
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Form Murder Soul
As human beings, everyone has stuff coming at them, and a certain kind of fear.
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Certain Kind Stuff
I have tried to be a man of letters in love with ideas in order to be a wiser and more loving person, hoping to leave the world just a little better than I found it.
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Idea Men Wise
Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.
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Constant Possibility Probability
Isabel Wilkerson’s book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don’t miss it!
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Book Miss People
Being a Christian is not a political orientation for the president, but he is a centrist.
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Christian Political President
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse.
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Ghetto Police Racism
You can’t have a high-quality relationship without time and without trust.
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High Quality Trust Without
When ordinary people wake up, elites begin to tremble in their boots.
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Ordinary People Wake
John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O’Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?
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Country Holiday Our People Society
Profound music leads us beyond language…to the dark roots of our scream and the celestial heights of our silence.
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Dark Profound Root
Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)
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Democracy Majority Rights
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years “Be successful, be successful, be successful” as opposed to “Be great, be great, be great”. There’s a qualitative difference.
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Differences Successful Year

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